The Horticulture of Decision Tree Pruning
Decision Trees are more that likely to suffer from overfitting than some of the other models. One way to alleviate some of that overfitting is prune your decision trees.
This presentation will begin with a description of decision trees, how they work, then discuss where they overfit. From there we analyze and measure the trees using , discuss unbalanced trees, finally, discuss and implement pre-pruning and post-pruning.
About Daniel Hinojosa
Daniel is a programmer, consultant, instructor, speaker, and recent author. With over 20 years of experience, he does work for private, educational, and government institutions. He is also currently a speaker for No Fluff Just Stuff tour. Daniel loves JVM languages like Java, Groovy, and Scala; but also dabbles with non JVM languages like Haskell, Ruby, Python, LISP, C, C++. He is an avid Pomodoro Technique Practitioner and makes every attempt to learn a new programming language every year. For downtime, he enjoys reading, swimming, Legos, football, and barbecuing.
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